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    Help to recovery M11x

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by dragonthl, Jun 18, 2011.

  1. dragonthl

    dragonthl Notebook Enthusiast

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    I format driver C: and install new windows 7.
    But now i want to recovery my laptop to original system but I dont know how to do this.
    With original system it has Alienware Respawn but I cant find this software to install.
    I already try to press F10 but it is not running alienware respawn.
    I still have OEM and Recovery partition.
     
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    dredd1893 Notebook Consultant

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    Have you created recovery media? If you have created it, no worry since it will re-format your harddrive, otherwise, you would be shooting in the dark testing your luck by downloading alienrespawn/dell datasafe and reinstall it, hoping it detects your recovery partition. Out of curiosity, why do you want to revert back to factory settings anyway?
     
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    dragonthl Notebook Enthusiast

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    Im selling it so I want put it to original systemp for buyer.
    I install datasafe and open alienware respawn, it shows the original backup and ask to restart to restore, but when the computer restart, it go straight to Windows 7 repair.
    So is there any chance to restore it or I have to make a fresh installation?
     
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    dragonthl Notebook Enthusiast

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    After install Alienware Respawn it said to make a new recovery disk and i made one to USB driver. After recovery by this USB driver I got factory reset.
    Just dont understand why, lol.
     
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    dredd1893 Notebook Consultant

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    that's the 'hoping' part of installing dell datasafe. Been there too and locked up, luckily I got my removable media recovery so I just boot from the media itself.
    I assume you dont have the recovery media (usb stick)?

    If you *really* want to, I can test whether extracting .wim file from the recovery partition/media will work. I will do that after I got home though..

    EDIT: or copying the whole recovery partition files (not that big actually) to an usb stick and boot from there.
    EDIT2: oops, you suceeded, congrats.. hope you got decent price for your m11x.
     
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